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Installing software still needs to run "dpkg --configure -a" command - Gordonbp - 01-20-2021
I was trying to install Zoho Notebook from a deb file and got the dreaded "there's another installer running" error. I looked up the forum and found a post from FOUR years ago, about the same error on v 3
Why has this not been fixed in V5?
Re: Installing software still needs to run "dpkg --configure -a" command - Moltke - 01-20-2021
(01-20-2021, 11:51 AM)Gordonbp link Wrote: I was trying to install Zoho Notebook from a deb file and got the dreaded "there's another installer running" error. I looked up the forum and found a post from FOUR years ago, about the same error on v 3
Why has this not been fixed in V5?
And are you sure there wasn't another installer running? How were you trying to install the .deb? Terminal commands? Gdebi? How?
Re: Installing software still needs to run "dpkg --configure -a" command - friTTe - 01-20-2021
Yeah can be annoying..not for me on Lite but some other way back.
Almost sure you had some installer running or gdebi and synaptic at once
Re: Installing software still needs to run "dpkg --configure -a" command - firenice03 - 01-20-2021
[member=42384]Gordonbp[/member]
I see 2 questions..
1) the lock - another process has it locked aka "there's another installer running" ...
And
2) Installing software still needs to run "dpkg --configure -a" command ...
1 this is by design and not a LL feature; if you have say Updates running and try to install an app, the updates will "lock" until the process is completed.
and vice versa - if you are installing via CLI or another(Synaptic etc) it will lock and updates cannot run.... Synaptic will lock while it open even if not installing....
2 kinda goes hand in hand; you will get this prompt - typically if you have cancelled an update/install mid way.
If you receive this prompt - in terminal run...
Code:
sudo dpkg --configure -aAllow to complete, then rerun updates or installer..